Meatball Marinara Sub
Open Food Facts label for barcode 0681131284851 · Sandwiches. Screening numbers and flags live in the verdict band below. This hero only situates the source record.
The verdict
Meatball Marinara Sub scores 75/100 in PlainFoodSafe's ingredient screening. We compared its 70 labeled ingredients with FDA SAFFA regulatory records and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings; 1 ingredient is flagged for caution. The source parser split this into a very long 70-component record, beginning with Roll, Bleached Enriched Bromated Flour, Bleached Wheat Flour. That density can include amounts and label fragments, so verify the physical label before relying on ingredient order or completeness. This is not a recall, allergy, medical, or dietary-safety determination.
- 75/100
- Caution safety score
- 1
- One flagged · of 70 analyzed
- Group 4
- Ultra-processed
- C
- Nutri-Score nutrition grade
Computed directly from OpenFoodFacts ingredient data cross-referenced with FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine ratings. See our methodology for the scoring formula.
Composite profile score
One verdict from three independent sources
55/100
Grade C
Ingredient Safety
75/100
FDA/CSPI flagged-ingredient screening
Processing Level
NOVA 4
Ultra-processed foods
Nutrition Grade
C
Nutri-Score front-of-pack nutrition grade
Weighted 50% ingredient safety / 25% processing level / 25% nutrition grade. A dimension with no data for this product (common: source coverage is partial) is dropped and its weight redistributes across the remaining dimensions, so missing data never silently lowers the score. See the full benchmark table.
31284851 · Open Food Facts · July 2026
Meatball Marinara Sub label screening desk
15 of 70 parsed ingredients carry FDA SAFFA or CSPI coverage (lead: Potassium Bromate). Source sheet 31284851 · Open Food Facts · July 2026. The screening score and flag counts are in the verdict band above. This desk is the provenance stamp, not a second scorecard. Methodology
Screening model notes
How Nutri-Score, NOVA, and list length read this record
The composite for this product falls in the second band of the four-tier framework. That band collects labels whose registry-rated components pull the derived score down measurably without dominating it. Position inside a band is not visible from the band name, and two labels sharing it can differ in how many components were rated and how severely. This is a threshold on an index computed here from public data, not a regulatory classification of any kind; the exact cut-offs are published on the methodology page.
Nutri-Score settled on its middle grade here, the band the algorithm produces when the penalty and credit sides of its nutrient ledger come out close to balanced. A mid-scale grade is a statement about the panel as a whole rather than about any single nutrient, and products arrive at it by very different routes: a moderate profile across every term, or high marks on some offset by heavy penalties on others. The grade is computed separately from the ingredient screen below and the two are not comparable measures.
The declared list is among the longer ones in this catalogue. A component set this wide means the screen returns many individual ratings, and the composite accumulates a large number of small contributions instead of turning on a handful of entries. At this length the per-component table below is substantially more informative than the single figure, because the figure compresses a great deal of variation into one number.
How It Compares to Its Category
Among the 1,373 products we've scored in the Sandwiches category, the average safety score is 88.9/100. Meatball Marinara Sub scores 13.9 points below that category average (75/100 vs. 88.9/100), so it is a comparatively weaker pick for shoppers screening within that category specifically, rather than against the product catalog as a whole.
Ingredient-list length vs other Sandwiches products
Meatball Marinara Sub lists 70 ingredients on its label
70 87th percentile a longer ingredient list than 87% of the 1,215 products we track
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Distribution as text
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Source Open Food Facts, product label ingredient lists · July 2026
Ingredient-list length is a descriptive property of the label, not a safety rating. A longer list is not automatically worse and a shorter one is not automatically better; the count is shown so the label can be placed against a comparable population. The comparison here runs against the 1,215 Sandwiches products we publish with a parsed label, not against the whole catalogue, because list length varies far more between categories than within one.
Ingredient Safety Analysis
How the 75/100 score is built
Screening starts at 100 and subtracts severity-weighted FDA SAFFA / CSPI flags (1 flagged of 70 labeled). The floor is 0 when deductions exceed 100.
Full Ingredient List
Roll (bleached enriched bromated flour [bleached wheat flour, malted barley flour, niacin, reduced iron, potassium bromate, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], water, vegetable oil blend [canola oil and extra virgin olive oil], dough improver blend [water, mono - and diglycerides, datem, guar gum, sorbic acid {preservative}, natural flavoring, wheat flour, enzymes], dough improver blend [gum arabic, wheat flour, mono - and diglycerides, salt, contains 2% or less of the following: soybean oil, cellulose gum, guar gum, enzymes], salt, dextrose, yeast, dough improver blend [wheat flour, mono - and diglycerides, datem, soy flour, contains 2% or less of the following: soybean oil, ascorbic acid {preservative}, enzymes, l-cysteine], enriched wheat flour [wheat flour, niacin, reduced iron, thiamine mononitrate, riboflavin, folic acid], enzymes), pork and beef meatballs (pork, beef, water, soy protein concentrate, seasoning [nonfat dry milk, salt, granulated onion and garlic, spices {including mustard}, sodium phosphates, parsley flakes, natural flavors], egg whites, breadcrumbs [wheat flour, salt, yeast], romano cheese made from cow's milk [pasteurized part-skim milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes], soy lecithin), pasteurized prepared cheese product (nonfat milk, american cheese [milk, cheese cultures, salt, enzymes], whey, palm oil, casein, food starch-modified, natural flavor, maltodextrin, sodium citrate, salt, lactic acid, sorbic acid [preservative], soy lecithin), pizza sauce (tomatoes, corn oil, salt, black pepper, oregano, garlic powder), seasoning blend (basil, onion powder, garlic powder, black pepper, salt).
Other products containing Bleached Enriched Bromated Flour
Bleached Enriched Bromated Flour is the least common ingredient on this label, appearing in 7 products across the catalog. See its safety profile.
Categories
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Follow the flagged-label evidence
Potassium Bromate is the first flagged ingredient selected from Meatball Marinara Sub's parsed label. Start with that ingredient’s source context, then compare the rest of this 70-ingredient record.
- Inspect the FDA SAFFA and CSPI context attached to Potassium Bromate. Open Potassium Bromate
- Compare Meatball Marinara Sub's 1 flagged ingredients with a product from the same score neighbourhood. Compare labels
- Check how caution flags contribute to the derived screening score before drawing a dietary conclusion. Read the method
This page describes published ingredient-list and source coverage. It is not dietary or medical advice.
Barcode 0681131284851: product data from Open Food Facts (July 2026). Screening from FDA SAFFA and CSPI Chemical Cuisine where attached. Figures are computed from those sources, not editor-typed. Methodology. Reference only, not dietary or medical advice.